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Besides that they can't shake the concept of a paywall, the NYT is indeed one of the newspapers that does a good job online. I should hope so, given their size.
by code_duck 15y ago
Besides that they can't shake the concept of a paywall, the NYT is indeed one of the newspapers that does a good job online. I should hope so, given their size... I remain unimpressed and even puzzled by the poor state of the website of the average local newspaper. I see it as more than the NYT has done a great job, the industry on average has done an abysmal job of creating useful well designed online services - therefore, ones that have modern websites like the NYT stand out.
- bbgm 15y agoThe NYT has great set of dev's, including the DocumentCloud folks who have open sourced a ton of their tools (http://www.documentcloud.org/opensource http://www.documentcloud.org/opensource). I presume this work comes out of their Interactive News team which features folks like Jeremy Askhenas. I met their research dev team some years ago and was pleasantly surprised by how good they were.
- code_duck 15y agoAbsolutely, the NYT web site is very, very good. I've been quite impressed by a few of their slick special features. That's what I'd expect from one of the top 5 newspapers in the world, though. What I'm wondering about is why the average newspaper for a town of 1,000,000 in the US has such a clusterfuck disaster of a website.